Lesson 113: Variational loop sketchpads
Focus
Document classical post-processing: it often dominates wall-clock and interpretability. Token Variational loop sketchpads:113 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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133043. - Habit: pair each job with shot budget, mitigation profile, and a calibration fingerprint you could paste.
- Guardrail: write one line about where classical cost dominated the timeline.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Calibration freshness matrix
| Window | Drift sentinel | Owner |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| TB0-6h | SPAM delta < 0.02 | cal-oncall-0 |
| TB1-23h | randomized benchmarking shift | ops-3 |
Drill: cite which sentinel invalidates queued jobs for lesson L113.
Practice
Practice Draft three pass/fail checks for fidelity or success probability before widening access. — 113 Bump literals mindset by 18.